Deep in Georgia, 3 hours south of Atlanta is a small town called Fitzgerald. 34 people work at a plant that makes a single product: MANA. MANA – “Mother Administered Nutritive Aid” – is a ready-to-use therapeutic food, what aid workers refer to as “RUTF or ready-to-use therapeutic food. It’s a kind of fortified peanut paste that’s been carefully formulated to provide all of a child’s basic nutritional needs, and it’s served in a packet that is easy for a mother to open, easy for a child to eat, and as tasty as peanut butter. Just three servings of MANA a day can save the life of a starving child.

 

Since Mana Nutritions beginning in 2009, MANA  has saved over 1 million lives of children in areas like Kenya, Sudan, Rwanda, Chad, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Burundi, North Korea and Guatemala. All thanks to this small packet of peanut butter, created by 34 people in a small Georgian town.